Posts by Brock Talon

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The looney left is at it again

by mickbobcat in

so we all know california is one shit hole idiot state.

now gov.

asshat has banned gas lawn mowers and leaf blowers.

Brock Talon

These tools are now being made electric battery operated which work just fine for small to averaged sized lots.

Says who?

Using a battery powered lawn mower or leaf blower for any extended period of time, even for small or average sized lots is a pain. You often have to purchase multiple batteries if one fails, gets old and does not hold a charge, or you forget to charge it or you incorrectly charge it, etc. These sets of backup batteries often cost nearly as much as the machine itself and their life span is relatively short compared to a combustible engine. My gas powered lawn mower lasted 20 years before I bought a new one. I used two gallons of gas per season maximum for my yard and one quart of oil every 5 years. Compare that to the poor soul who has to purchase dozens of batteries for his "green" lawn mower; he is causing more pollution by using up and throwing out many batteries over the life of his mower. Never mind the fact that these batteries are built in production plants powered by oil and/or natural gas.

And just how many lots will be above "average size where this will be impractical and extremely expensive? What if you have an above average lot? What if you run a landscaping business?

The thing that cracks me up about all this is that the Left completely ignores the current state of "battery" viability. we just are not there yet to totally go oil free on anything. Consider a Tesla battery which is the world’s best-known battery maker: $200,000 worth of Tesla batteries (collectively weighing over 20,000 pounds) are needed to store the energy equivalent of one barrel of oil. A barrel of oil, meanwhile, weighs 300 pounds and can be stored in a $20 tank.

This is the reality of today’s lithium batteries. Even a 200% improvement in under lying battery economics and technology does not close that gap.

Look, eventually, someday, we will get there. But that time is not now. It is especially not the time for such mandates. But then again, this new fascism comes from the Left, who always throw away science, facts and logic when it comes to their progressive "religion" based on emotion and hyperbole.

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MIDNIGHT MASS on Netflix is extraordinary (horror)

by Terry in

jw
friends

i will post a **spoiler** in a few minutes.a 7 part horror movie on netflix titled midnight mass blew me away and i thought i mightrecommend this limited series (only seven parts.first of all, there is a word never ever mentioned by anybody in this horror drama.that is for a good reason.

a very good reason.

i won't mention it either or i'd ruin part of the build-up inside the plot.suffice to say, this horror story is a very fresh take on a well-trodden path we've all been down many times (if we are fans.

Brock Talon

I just finished this series and left conflicted. Overall, I enjoyed it, but had nagging negatives about it too that I did not want to have. These things have just sat there, eating at my enjoyment of the experience and the more I think about them, the more they bother me.

On the positives: The series is beautifully written, acted and filmed. I loved the setting, the slow burns and depth and richness of the characters. I love watching movies and shows that surprise me... I don't want to see the obvious Hollywood cliches and signaling. This series had none of that. It entertained me and kept me wanting to see what happened next with each episode. This is not the case with some shows at all; I will leave them abandoned as I am want to do with a meal I am not enjoying - just not worth the time and calories to finish. This show: I gobbled up.

But as time the episode came on that told me what genre this movie was based on, I was a little disappointed. No, this is not a traditional show of that genre because it has a scientific twist to it, but still, in the end it was a show about "V-------s". Just accept it, that is the basis of the show. I had to.

But the thing is, the Vs in this show are depicted as the "bad" and the rest of the town (except the crazy religious nut lady who takes over) are the good. At least that is how the show portrays them. But why are the Vs bad? Are they not also just part of "nature," "evolution," "the universe?" Are they not part of "God," the "I am who I am" that the "good" character (who was a drug addicted, rock and roll wannabe who ended up pregnant and in an abusive relationship) quoted in the end, thus putting an exclamation point of what most non-believer/athiests adhere to? If there is no "god" then why are the Vs bad? Wouldn't the world be better off with everyone being a V? If not, why not? It's all survival of the fittest, no? Why is there a moral judgement being made against Vs? Who's to say that they don't deserve to survive and the rest of mankind be replaced?

These were the questions I had once everything ended and I watched the closing credits. They are things I had not really thought of in that way at all. It had me asking myself that even an obvious non-believer/atheist writer who created this world believes that mankind is better off without Vs, better off with "love" for each other (a real abstract thing when looked at from an evolutionary standpoint) and sacrificing themselves for the better of humanity while quoting from scripture "there is no love greater than one who would die for others."

The thing is, why do all the Christians have to either be A) Crazy, B) Controlling, C) Naive sheep to the slaughter, D) Weak or perhaps all the above? Are there no strong, decent, compassionate, intelligent, insightful, balanced religious people in the world?

Why are all the heroes of this series either Gay, or drunken manslaughterers, or ex-addicts, or Muslim? The Christians were pretty much just a bunch of weak dummies, with the exception of the one psycho, power-hungry clergy-woman.

In the end, this show was to me a walking contradiction, trying to have it both ways: depicting inherent weakness and futility in religion, yet referencing it repeatedly as the basis of the best in the human experience.

6

Will your wife let you......

by mickbobcat in

i grew up in the 70s and had a few of the posters young guys have.

farrah fawcett and bo derek in 10. i just bought a vintage copy of both for my work shop.

my wife says she does not care but you never know.

Brock Talon

I married a partner not a mother.

Here here!

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My latest novel is now available on Amazon, I think you might like it.

by JeffT in

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friends

my latest novel, “armageddon’s disciples” is now available in both print and kindle versions.

a brief description:.

“when three “disciples” of the word of god foundation discover seventeen-year-old alice lahti dead in their meeting hall, detective ed franklin quickly finds a tangled web of toxic relationships, sexual abuse, blackmail, murder, and bizarre failed prophecies.

Brock Talon

Good Lord, Jeff! 50 chapters and 400 pages? Leo Tolstoy would be jealous.

The book does sound intriguing... I might partake if I get the time.

Wishing you many, many readers.

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My 20 year anniversary

by new boy in

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friends

after being a jehovah's witness for 52 years, today marks my 20 year anniversary of being out of the borg!

i turned in my letter of disassociation on september 18th 2001. it was read to the congregation on september 19th, my wife's birthday.

of course the years have had its difficulties but it has also had many wonderful experiences and epiphanies.

Brock Talon

Congrats, Keith. It's good being free.

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I have never been to Las Vegas.

by Iamallcool in

jw
friends

i would like to visit las vegas one day.

if you have a choice, would you want to live there?

low humidity sounds good to me.

Brock Talon

I've been to Vegas probably 20+ times. The earlier times were personal trips, the remaining mostly for business.

When you say "Las Vegas" I assume you mean the strip, which gets all the attention, but there are actually lots of cool things to do off the strip as well. Over the years, as my business often required me to stay for 5, 6, 7 days at a time, I grew tired of the place. But that only happened slowly because there were so many things to do there and each year there was something fresh to see or do. So while it would be easy for me to say now that I do not really like the place much any more (which would be true) it would also be a bit hypocritical of me because I actually enjoyed going there at one time quite a bit.

For the record, I am not much of a gambler, I don't smoke cigarettes (but do enjoy a cigar now and then) and my drinking is relatively modest. As such, the casino action itself never really interested me. It was all the other "stuff" that was so enjoyable.

Vegas is a place that everyone should experience at least once in their life. It's like a Disney theme park for adults.

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How do JW feel about CBD?

by Iamallcool in

jw
friends

i am not so sure if i am willing to discuss cbd with my jw aunt.

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Brock Talon

No one here has seemed to weigh in on how JWs feel about CBD. I've been out so long now, I have no idea myself and I don't really care.

To me, being against CBD would like being against aspirin. (But I wouldn't put it past some self-righteous JWs making a stink about it.)

And like aspirin, it does not work for everyone.

I tried the sublingual drops myself: bought a six month supply. I doubled up on the dose after month two.

NOTHING.

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Get Vaccinated or Get laid Off

by StephaneLaliberte in

i’m personally for the vaccine, took two shots and would take a third if asked.

but i know a friend of mine that doesn’t want to take the vaccine who works for the government and now is faced with this choice: get vaccinated or get laid off.

i don’t agree with this measure as it is totalitarian and runs against my core belief in individual freedom.. now, with that being said, what i don’t understand is that my friend still won’t get vaccinated.

Brock Talon

Would these dreaded maladies get reduced in threat despite an uproar? Thoughts?

1. The smallpox vaccine prevented the spread of smallpox. The COVID-19 vaccines do not prevent the spread of COVID-19.

The CDC and other pro-vaccine camps attempt to counter this fact by claiming that vaccines "reduce the rate" of spread, but really, how can this be known? Besides that, their faith in the vaccines themselves are refuted by their own recommendations after getting a vaccine: Get all the boosters. Continue to wear a mask. Continue social distancing, etc.

See: https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/vaccine-basics/index.html

See: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/you-can-still-spread-develop-covid-19-after-getting-a-vaccine-what-to-know

See: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/07/30/1022867219/cdc-study-provincetown-delta-vaccinated-breakthrough-mask-guidance

2. Smallpox had a worldwide mortality rate of 30%. COVID-19 worldwide mortality rate is 2% (allegedly)

Note: The U.S. mortality rate for COVID-19 is even less and that is if you accept the dubious mortality numbers to begin with, given the WHO, CDC, and others have been counting people who die WITH COVID-19 the same as those who die FROM it. On your deathbed with cancer and then get COVID-19 to finish you off? COVID death. Go through a windshield in an accident, get rushed to a hospital and they find you have COVID-19 and you die? COVID death.

Note: I am not in the camp of people who read that one report about only 6% of COVID-19 deaths have no co-morbidity as meaning the number of COVID-19 death reported can then be reduced by 94%. That is much too simplistic. But I AM in the camp of those who believe the reported numbers of COVID-19 deaths have been counted in a way that no other disease in history has been counted and errors on the side of being inflated. That much is absolutely irrefutable.

See: https://www.health.harvard.edu/a_to_z/smallpox-a-to-z

See: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

3. Smallpox cannot travel to and from animals, mutate and come back again. COVID-19 variants can.

See my previous post: https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5080390732611584/why-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-wrong

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We need to stop being frightened to death by people trying to control us. We need to think for ourselves, seek out the facts as best we can about our options (like any disease) and make our own decisions on how to treat ourselves.

We do NOT need to be led over the cliff like a bunch of lemmings.

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Who is the SEXIST MAN ALIVE in 2021?

by pistolpete in

anthony fauci.

https://nypost.com/2021/09/15/the-guardian-proclaims-dr-anthony-fauci-sexiest-man-alive/.

Brock Talon

Dr. Fauci should be declared "The unsexiest manslayer alive"

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Get Vaccinated or Get laid Off

by StephaneLaliberte in

i’m personally for the vaccine, took two shots and would take a third if asked.

but i know a friend of mine that doesn’t want to take the vaccine who works for the government and now is faced with this choice: get vaccinated or get laid off.

i don’t agree with this measure as it is totalitarian and runs against my core belief in individual freedom.. now, with that being said, what i don’t understand is that my friend still won’t get vaccinated.

Brock Talon

To answer your question, see this post:

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5080390732611584/why-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-wrong